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AJBARBERL PICTURE HOLDER.

No. 66,115; Patented June 25, 1867 M: NORRIS Prrsns 00., Pnomumo. WASNINGYON. o. c.

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xnnno B ARBER, or PO RT BYRON, ILLINOIS. Letters Patent No. 66,115, dated June 25, 1867.

PIGTURE-HOLDER.

To ALL WHOM 11' MAY ooncnnn:

Be it known that I, Ammo BARBER, of Port Byron, in the county of Rock Island, and State of Illinois, have inrented'a new and improved Picture-Holder; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others, skilled'in'the art to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forining part of this specification.

a The object of the present invention is to provide a case or box for the reception of pictures, more particulurly card-photographs, in which the pictures in regular order and succession can be brought 'to the open or glass front of the'case for being viewedor'seen, while at the same time tliey a'rc encased, and thus placed beyond being injured or defaced by the contact 'or touch off the hands as now often occurs with the ordinary photograph album, so called. In the accompanying plate of drawings my improved -picture-holder" is illustrated- Figure 1 being a frontior face view of the holder. i

Figure 2, a transverse vertical section taken on the plane. of the lines: 2 fig. 1.

Figure 3, a vertical section taken in the plane of the line 3 y, fig. 2;

Figures 4 and 5, detail views to he hereinafter referred to.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A, in the drawings, represents a box or casing, which, in the present instance, is made of a rectangular shape, and upon oneside, at its upper part, is provided with two glass plates, B, of a similar size, placed alongside of each other, .butscparated by a. bar or rail, these glasses being made of a suitable size to expose the pictures, to which the box or case -is adapted, to view. The box or casing Act its lower end is closed'by a head-piece or strip, G, of wood or other suitable material fixedthereto, while the strip D, constituting the upper end of the box, is,.by its parallel leg-pieces E, attached to such head-piece so as to lie along and against the inside of the side-pieces'F of-theboxor casing, arranged" in such manner that by'ta'kinghold of such head-piece and pulliugit up and pushingit down: its legs will be correspondingly drawn out of and run into the box. These legs E to the head-piece C are each madewith two parallel prongs, G, eo.ch of which has about spring, H, attached to them of the form shown .in fig. 5 of the drawings, but in such a manner as to extend in oppositedirections, the width of the prongs G being equal, to but not more tlran'the thickness of the frames for holding the pictures. I, a series of frames, made of aunit'o'rm size and shape, with each adapted to receive two pictures, and of suitable formnto expose such pictures to iew at the glasses in the casing A, oneateach end of the same, as shown. Tbese frames are placed within the box or casing A, which, in th'e present instance, is adapted to rcceive'six in-number, three upon each side of the centre transverse partition J of the box. Between the two parallel edges of thisipartition and the front and-back boards offthe box a space,-L, is left of suitable width to allow a franie to be drawn from one side of the said partition to the other, either upon the back .or front side of the box. 'Each frame -I along its sides is cut out or grooved, as shownat-M in fig. 3 of the drawings, which is such as to form a sho'ulder,M, at each end, with-the surface or bottom of the groove between such shoulders of a gradual inclination toward its centre in each case. :0, bent sprin gs'socured to the inside of the back and front boards respectively of the box A, two to each board, to which they are attached in such manner as to bear upon the space or front of the side-pieces P of each frame I, the springs on the back board serving to hold the frames in the glass frontsectioniof the be): against the'front'hoard, andthe springs secured to the front board serving to hold the frames the lower chamber ofthe boxgagainst the back hoard.

With a box or casing, A, provided with the several parts and constructed in the manner above explained, by pulling the upper cross or end-piece of the boxaway from that end. of the same, thelegs of such cross-piece by their springs are caused to take the frame, which'is ugainst the hack of' the box and in thclower sect-ion of the same, and carrying it into the upper section back of those in the same, brings it intoproper position therein, when movingthe said cross-piece baclrto its seatupon the upper end of the box, the picture-frame exposed to view at the'glasses is taken thereby through its springs and carried into the lower section, where it is deposited between the front one in such scction'and the inside of the front board of the box, the bent springs attached to the front and back hoards of thehox, respectively, serving to ,hold and force the several picture-frames upon which they act to their proper places upon the'completion of each outward and inwardmovement of the upper cross-piece, while at the same time they are so bent and situated; as to ofi'er no obstruction to the free carriage ss,us 2

of the frames from one section to the other by the movement of the cross-piece. In the carrying of thejfraines from one section of the box to the other, the springs attached to the legs of the cross-piece are the means by which the frames are thrown into connection therewith for being carried along with them, these springs alternately acting against the shoulders of the grooves in the sides or edges of the frame I in the one case, while in the other, by. the inclined shape of the surface or bottom of the groove, they are made toclose in or upon the legs, so as to produce no effect upon or motion to thefrumes, as is plainly obvious from the above explanation and by the inspection of the drawings without any further description herein. It may behere observed that from the manner in which the holder for pictures hereinaoovc described operates, a. series of pictures in regular order and succession can be brought to view or sight by a simple movement of one of'the end or head-pieces to the box up and down, and that, furthermore, the pictures while thus susceptible of being seen or viewed, are entirely encased or boxed up, as itwere, and thus not liable to be injured or soiled by the contact or touch of the hands, its-is new the case with the ordinary photograph albums," so called.

in order to enable the picture-frames to be inserted in and removed t'rom the box or casing, I have divided the back of the-box: insueh a manner that u sufiicient portion of it'canflbc removed to allow the picture-frames to be put in and taken out with ease and facility, this section of theback being secured or fastened in position by set-pins S applied as shown in fig. 2 of the drawings.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- A holder for photographic or other pictures, in which a series of frames for the pictures is so arranged that by moving or drawing one end of the box out or in such frames in regular order or succession will be brought in position for being viewed, substantially as described.

ALBRO BARBER.

Witnesses:

THOMAS P. BARBER, N: BELCHER. 

